Consider the lobster: they can't claw their way out of Trump's trade war

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For Maine, no other sector has been hit as hard by the China-US trade war than its lobster industry. For lobster farmers in Maine, China has proved a lucrative market, and the region represents the US’s top producer and exporter of the crustacean. Last year, China consumed some $129m worth of the critters. Bloomberg writes that these farmers have been left with an uphill struggle following the tit-for-tat trade policies, with the US commander-in-chief seen as the key culprit in their ...